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Puerto Rican doctors rally at White House, urge Obama to create pilot single-payer system on island

Public Citizen News Release – WASHINGTON — The Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons urged President Obama today to create a single-payer pilot program on the island, saying it is the best way to provide universal coverage to all of Puerto Rico’s 4 million residents. Members of the organization, which represents all 11,000 physicians…

Policing the Debate on Health Reform

By Isabel Macdonald for FAIR – ABC’s Diane Sawyer claimed (CNN, 6/22/09) the network’s June 24 forum on President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan would feature “questions from every single vantage point.” Yet, ignoring calls from FAIR (Action Alert, 6/22/09) and advocacy groups such as Health Care Now!, the special did not include a single question…

Obama Asks For Your Questions On Health Care

Please take action for Single Payer healthcare by submitting a question to the President by Wednesday, July 1. You have to upload your video question to YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook. According to the White House: “President Obama is scheduled to hold an online town hall on Wednesday to discuss health care and the White House…

LabCorp Denies Blood Test for Heart Attack Patient Due to $7 Debt

By Donna Smith OK, if this wasn’t personal enough just yet for me, it just got a whole lot more so. And if you think for one instant that in this nation at this point in history and with this popularly elected President and Democratic Congress you will be treated for a heart attack simply…

Sing Out for Single-Payer Road Show

Singer/songwriter Anne Feeney is headlining a tour throughout California, Oregon, and Washington in July to support national, single-payer healthcare (HR 676 and S 703). You can find all of her tour dates on her website, and listen to one of her songs right here. From Anne Feeney’s website: “We believe that single payer health insurance…

Today: Tell ABC-TV to put Single-Payer on the Table

ABC News is presenting a full day of in-depth of coverage on President Barack Obama’s healthcare proposal today, Wednesday, June 24, 10pm EST. This includes an hour-long Primetime “town hall” discussion featuring Obama and questions from audience members. The ABC press release says that the town hall discussion will be moderated by Charles Gibson, Diane…

Action Alert: Congress is Headed in the Wrong Direction

It’s time to tell Congress that it’s headed in the wrong direction – proposing to spend over a trillion more dollars to put band aids on a healthcare system that needs major surgery. Everyone in the LCGHC national coalition and its network of millions of Americans have worked hard and made huge strides toward advancing…

Amnesty International USA calls on Senate to Consider Single Payer proposals

Amnesty International USA issued the following email alert. To take action, go to the AI-USA online Action Center: Health Care is a Human Right — Urge the Senate to Have a Real Debate on Single Payer We at Amnesty International believe that policymakers have a historic opportunity to reform a broken health care system. During…

Health care a human right?

From The Real News – A single payer rep finally testifies to Congress; insurance industry steps up attack on any public plan June 21 – “Our decades’ reliance on the market and efforts to patch together a system to use a public and private mix has failed to carry a quality health care to all…

The Policy That Dare Not Speak Its Name

By Robert Kuttner for Huffington-Post – I’m sure I’m not the only reader who noticed the juxtaposition of two front page stories in Sunday’s New York Times dealing with health care. The first article cited a new Times-CBS poll showing that 72 percent of Americans favored a government run health plan comparable to Medicare, which…